So long as you’ve put away the white shoes…
Tell me about it.
I go barefoot as often as humanly possible. If I’m home I take off my shoes and socks. I don’t like slippers. I like bare feet. And I don’t like going to the trouble of putting on shoes and socks just to take out the trash or get the mail.
It’s amazing how UPSET this makes people.
“The floor is freezing. How can you walk around that way!”
I seem to be walking around just find.
“It’s November and you’re outside barefoot!!!”
Well I know it’s against federal regulations, but I’m just getting the mail not going on a ten mile hike. I think I can take it.
If it starts to bother me I’ll do something about it. Do I go around ripping people’s sweaters off because I’m too warm?
The other thing I hate is when I walk from point A to point B in a light rain, come in with my hair damp, and people act like I just strolled in from Hurricain Andrew.
“You WALKED? But it’s RAINING!!!”
Sheesh. Can this really be the same species that colonised every climatic region on the planet?
I have to wear my winter coat when its 60 degrees or less here.
Of course, i have no car, and must walk or bus.
I wish my body could handle the cooler temperatures, peopel who wear less in cold weather always look “cooler” than us freezebabies.
Give me your secrets!
is it a warm bowl of bulgur before going out?
A heat pad in your undies?
I know what An Arky means about people in Virginia/DC.
While I was stationed in Norfolk during the 70s, I often left my coat in the car while shopping because the stores were all just too damn hot. And I got the most horrified looks from people over the light clothing my then-infant first child wore in public. (Their kids were wrapped like mummies whenever it was below 60.)
Stores in Omaha used to be just adequately heated, but they’ve let their thermostats creep upward to the level of Norfolk.
I do endorse the idea of plenty of heavy clothes, extra socks and gloves, etc. in my vehicle.
It’s unhealthy to sweat indoors and then go out to sub-freezing temperatures.
Havre de Grace, Maryland: Warm, warm, warm. A bit of rain. People wearing down parkas, toques, and gloves. I will be wearing Overall shorts, sleeveless tank top, and slip-on shoes. Socks optional.
Everyone: OH MY GOD ARE YOU INSANE?
Me: No, I’m from Canada. That place where they actually get WINTER.
People think I’m insane. What people don’t realize is that I spent eight years in the arctic. That’s enough time to acclimatize toward the cold. I just about died in the heat and humidity here this summer, and everyone thought it was because I’m from the cold place. Why can’t they understand that it works the same in the other extremes?
I attribute it to clean living and mental discipline.
The extra 200 pounds of natural insulation helps, too. 
People who wear socks with sandals, any time of the year, deserve to have their feet cut off in the most painful way possible.
::laughing and pointing at GingeroftheNorth::
Wait till they forecast snow here in the Greater Baltimore Metro area. It’s required that everyone rush to the grocery store and stock up on milk, bread and toilet paper. Then the snow comes. All 3/4 of an inch of it. The schools close. Businesses send employees home. Intrepid reporters broadcast from the salt dome on Falls Road. The weather man is out, measuring the snow with his trusty ruler.
Then the sun comes out and the “snow” melts by noon. Everyone congratulates each other on surviving the “blizzard.”
:rolleyes:
It amuses me that places as relatively close as Havre de Grace and Altoona, PA, can have such dramatically different climate. We get (in a normal year) snow cover from mid-December to about mid-March. From personal estimate, I’d say there’s usually about an eight-inch accumulation on the ground throughout that time period. I don’t think our schools get more than one snow day a year on average.
That said, while I don’t mind winter so much for personal comfort reasons, the fact that I can’t grow what I want in my garden because of it torques me off sometimes.
Byline Valparaiso: This is really common in Indiana as well with, say maybe 3-4 inches of snow, and not having schools close. I had worked in a grocery store, and in they would come to stock up in case of a power outage, but oh, the snacks they would buy!
With nary a candle , nor a battery in sight, they got JUNK FOOD. Chips, soda pop, frozen pizzas, and snack cakes. I never understood why so few bought batteries or candles as I doubt that they had enough for a an outage that could last from half an hour to as much as three days! The last one in 1998, ice took out many utility poles, and we had a good three days without electricity.
I envy you people—I’m like Vanilla. If it’s under 70º, I’m all bundled up like Eliza crossing the ice. I wear mittens and scarves and hats for most of the spring and fall, and people at the train station look at me like I’m mad.
Heck, round here in south-central NC all we need is a report that it’s snowing in the mountains to get people off to the stores. Only once have I gone to the store for any of the winter staples, and that was only because we had run out of toilet paper in the middle of an ice storm.
I personally have lousy circulation in my feet, so my barefoot running around is now sock-feet running around, but that’s the only concession to cold weather my feet make indoors. The rest of me though…well, I do like jeans.